QUESTION 6WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

MICROSOFT PUBLISHER

When creating my school magazine cover I chose Microsoft publisher as I thought it would be a easier program to use then photoshop, I started by having a basic template which I then added images which overlapped and underlapped text by changing the format to either bring to front or send to back. It was also easy to insert a variety of shapes and add text which the tools where at the top of the page. I could also import different fonts and images, which I used adobe firework to cut out the background. I could also align the text easily using the alignment tool.

Microsoft was quite a simplistic program which enabled me to work quickly and easily as I had used the program numerous times before.

ADOBE FIREWORKS

I used this program when I came to difficulty and couldn’t get rid of backgrounds on images which I did not want, this was a easy program which I could use a simple tool which would easily get the background away, which sometimes if the colours of the background and the image wanted was to similar than it needed a bit more effort and i had to change the tolerance of the tool.

Adobe fireworks was used when making my school front cover because I could also get rid of the white patches within letters of my fonts which I did not want.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS6

I used photoshop when I started creating my music magazine, as I wanted my work to be high quality and I new there was multiple effects and tools I could use to do so. I started to experiment with different effects with my main image and found one that suited my genre called crosshatch, I also found that there was a similar tool like the transparent colour tool which was called the magic wand tool which could get rid of the background also, I could also change the tolerance of the magic wand tool to fade out the background for a better effect. With adobe photoshop I could create many layers which I could also group so images where easy to find and I could also hide them pressing on the eyes of the layer, to try different things. I could change the layers names so I knew what layer was what and made groups such as bottom strip so all layers included in the bottom strip were grouped together. With shapes I could make create a outline and change the thickness and colour which helped make the shapes stand out which was a blending option called stroke.

I did encounter a few problems when using this program but used tutorials, guides and trial and error to get around these problems.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS6

Here I have tried different filters for my main image. Which I liked one called Crosshatch

Here I have added a stroke on my right pug to thicken the outline and make it stand out more.

FONTS

For some fonts I used dafont.com such as with my masthead for my music magazine as I could search different genres of fonts which helped me choose an appropriate font for my magazine which was called codygraff under graffiti. I would print screen the font then use either publisher or photoshop to crop and delete the background.

I also used photoshop when I had developed my skills to create text and add different effects such as outer glows and strokes to make the text look better and stand out.

WHAT I USED

• When taking images I used a Toshiba cameleo and a Nikon Coolpix L27.

• I used a 16gb SD card to save all

• I used a RM tutor laptop

• I used a 32gb San disk memory card to save all photoshop documents